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In its “Kyushu University VISION 2030,” Kyushu University sets out its aim to be “a university that drives social change through integrative knowledge.” Toward the realization of this vision, the Data-Driven Innovation Initiative plays a key role in promoting the integration of knowledge and the creation of new value across education, research, healthcare, and university administration, using data and digital technology as its foundation.
The Initiative works to promote the utilization of academic resources, such as research and educational data, while also providing university-wide support, including the development of environments for utilizing AI and data science and the promotion of human resource development, to build a foundation for the advancement of education, research, healthcare, and university administration through data-driven approaches, as well as for the creation of sustainable innovation.
In recent years, the rapid advancement of AI and other digital technologies has brought about significant changes in the environment surrounding universities. Across all aspects of education, research, healthcare, and university administration, there is a growing demand for the creation of new value through the use of data and AI, and our university must further accelerate these efforts.
Going forward, to contribute to the realization of the “Integrative Knowledge” that our university strives for, we will promote digital transformation (DX) university-wide across diverse fields and work to create new value through co-creation with a wide range of stakeholders both within and outside the university.

President, Kyushu University Koichi Akashi

Deputy Chief Director

Executive Vice President・Senior Vice President

Koji Inoue

Deputy Chief Director

Vice President

Kazuki Yoshizoe

Assistant Chief Director

Senior Vice President

Koji Okamura

Assistant Chief Director

Visiting Professor

Yuichi Nakamura

Director

Professor

Masanori Yamada

Director

Visiting Professor

Yuichi Nakamura

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The Data-Driven Innovation Initiative (DX Initiative) is designed to utilize our university’s strengths, including learning analytics, innovative educational content development, and research in mathematical and data sciences, library science, and the pioneering Hisayama Genome Cohort. Our objective is to create a system that not only promotes data-driven education, research, and healthcare across the entire university but also positions us as a leading institution in digital transformation (DX). By collaborating with the local community and harnessing integrative knowledge, Kyushu University aims to contribute to real social change as a pioneer in DX.
Given the difficulty of addressing complex social challenges through the siloed efforts of individual high-performing research areas, our approach involves bringing together a wide array of academic fields, from the natural sciences to humanities and social sciences, under the university president’s governance and management, while also considering the ethical and legal implications. This unified approach aims to address social challenges and create a foundation to facilitate transformations within social and economic systems.

MISSION

1 Data-driven education, research, and medical development

In the current DX era, we're promoting a data-driven strategy across the university to transform education, research, and healthcare. This strategy involves collecting a wide range of data, analyzing it to develop new methodologies in these fields, and then using the resulting data to advance to the next stages of education, research, and healthcare. This positive feedback loop is part of a university-wide push to dramatically improve the quality through a data-driven approach.

2 Proposals for an ideal new digital society

Guided by digital advancements, our approach is to envision the ideal digital society and analyze the path to this future through backcasting. We intend to articulate the precise steps that need to be undertaken in the short, medium, and long term to achieve this vision.

Proposals for an ideal new digital society

In partnership with the Integrated Initiative for Designing Future Society, we are committed to exploring the ideal role of DX in future societies. Through backcasting the journey towards this ideal, and by outlining concrete steps for the short, medium, and long term, we aim to contribute to the development of the new digital society, sharing our findings and recommendations with society at large.
We will focus on clarifying regional issues and providing support for solutions through DX. Additionally, we aim to contribute to the development of DX professionals who are needed in local regions.

Source : Kyushu University VISION 2030

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